His straightforward and blunt judgements have had critics to liken him to Simon Cowell.
It is a send up of American Idol, and Tim Curry plays the Simon Cowell-esque British judge Nigel St. Nigel.
When Simon Cowell was honoured with the 2010 Humanitarian Award at the Variety World Conference in Hollywood, he remarked that it was Julia Morley who should be collecting the award in his place, for her work as a humanitarian through Beauty with a Purpose.
Mills' audition song for The X Factor was "Bring It On Home To Me" by Sam Cooke, which impressed the panel of judges; Simon Cowell thought he sounded like a young Joe Cocker, whom, incidentally, Ben names as one of his musical influences along with Tom Waits, Rod Stewart and David Bowie.
The show was the brainchild of Calvin Simms, who assumed a Simon Cowell style role as the mean, English judge.
After her performance of Shakira's "Underneath your Clothes" Simon Cowell stated that Darja has The X Factor.
Simon Cowell correctly predicted that Hicks would win that year's American Idol with the performance.
Also when Simon Cowell went on Top Gear he was shown a picture of the car and said it had a disease.
Written specifically for the group and presented to music mogul Simon Cowell, the song was nominated to be the title track on their 'The Promise (Il Divo album)' recording which was released in November 2008.
Editor Patrick Kennedy chose to feature Simon Cowell of American Idol in a section on pop culture, drawing press attention from the Washington Whispers section of U.S. News & World Report.
Simon Cowell initially planned to only release dance videos with Sampson, but after seeing fan responses to Sampson, he wanted to do more.
In May 2010 he appeared on Channel 4's Real Stories discussing the careers of music stars including Cheryl Tweedy, Rihanna and Simon Cowell with host Dave Berry.
They all take turns bashing Idol's most popular judge, Simon Cowell, and ultimately tell him in their minds that he does not matter and neither do his harsh statements ("Simon Says").
In 2010 Simon Cowell was presented with an International Emmy Founders Award.
Simon Cowell also said that More was "probably the best magician ever on Britain's Got Talent".
During the top 13 week, she performed "I'll Be There" by The Jackson 5, with Simon Cowell giving a minor critique that it was "a little bit robotic at times."
Some of the guests that have joined Wolfe in his private studio for in-depth interviews on both The Real Deal and 'The Daily Nooner are recognizable names such as, Simon Cowell, Chevy Chase, Cheech and Chong, Weird Al Yankovic, Henry Hill, Tom Green, Pauly Shore, Sinbad, Alan Parsons, Ted Nugent, Rob Schneider, Tony Robbins, Adam Carolla, Baba Booey and numerous others.
After a number of private performances in front of family members, Smallwood auditioned for the new talent contest co-created by famous music executive Simon Cowell.
Sara Nunes (born 1980) is a Finnish pop singer who gained some attention in 2005 after releasing her debut single "Simon Can't Sing" which was a parody of Simon Cowell, the famous American Idol & Pop Idol judge.
He has since featured in commercials for Chicago Town Pizza as a Simon Cowell lookalike.
Scottish singer Jai McDowall got through the audition stage whilst on holiday in 2009, he later reached the bootcamp stage of the 2010 X Factor UK and then won the 2011 Britain's Got Talent winning a contract to Simon Cowell's Syco label.
Simon Cowell - He was seen in a cutaway gag where Lisette was imagining to be in American Icon (parody of American Idol) and insults her singing but has a liking for Hung's singing.
The Song was again performed on the American Idol Season 9 Finale as a farewell tribute to Simon Cowell together by seven former American Idol champions: Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Fantasia Barrino, Carrie Underwood, Jordin Sparks, Taylor Hicks, and Kris Allen and more than 15 past contestants of American Idol.
While she has an extensive range of performing skills, her 'angle grinding' act, where she shoots sparks up to 20 feet in any chosen direction, really caught the eye of the judges Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan and Amanda Holden on the show.
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The slogan has been recycled and used for the past 25 years in film campaigns to promote Sleepless in Seattle, My Best Friend's Wedding, While You Were Sleeping, The 2005 re-release of Disney's Lady and the Tramp, as well as countless ads for music groups, including Simon Cowell's recent number one album El Divo.
The series premise is close to Simon Cowell's Duets: three actors/artists/politicians will appear in each episode, singing a song, with the help of professional singers.
Access Hollywood revealed that Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest would make cameos in the video and that Abdul choreographed all her own dance moves.
Sierra auditioned in Orlando for the fourth season of American Idol. She was eliminated on March 30, during 1990s music week after she sang LeAnn Rimes' "On the Side of Angels", surprising some fans since Simon Cowell had previously stated that she was one of the strongest female vocalists in the competition.
McElderry rose to fame after winning The X Factor and signing a million pound record deal with Simon Cowell's company Syco, His debut single "The Climb" debuted at number two selling over 450,000 copies in its first week of release.
Simon said that she had done what she was told by being Country, while Kara and Randy disagreed, opining that she has more of an R&B sensibility.
Sue Son first came to public attention after auditioning for the third series of U.K. talent show Britain's Got Talent, helmed by Simon Cowell.
The panel of judges, Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Sharon Osbourne, advised Callaghan to re-audition as a solo singer in order to proceed in the competition.
After sailing through their audition and bootcamp stages, The Reason reached the judges houses stage and sang in front Simon Cowell's house in his residence in Marbella, singing Daniel Bedingfield's song "If You're Not The One", but were dropped by Simon, the mentor for the groups that year, in favour of One Direction, F.Y.D, Belle Amie and Diva Fever